Presentation: 

• Gideon Greenspan (CoinSpark) - Bitcoin 2.0 and OP_RETURN: - The Blockchain as TCP/IP?
Topics:

Github Issues/Pull Requests
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+milestone%3A0.10.0
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5485
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5479
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5476
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5466
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/5454
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5461
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5434
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5418
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/5459
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/5311

Sergio Lerner Joins the Core Dev Team
https://bitcoinfoundation.org/2014/12/welcome-sergio-lerner/

Recent EvalScript() changes mean CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY can’t be merged
http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/bitcoin-development/thread/20141215124730.GA8321%40savin.petertodd.org/#msg[masked]
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2pd0zy/peter_todd_is_saying_shoddy_development_on_v010/cmvnx7a

Setting the Record Straight on Proof of Publication
http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/33141982/

Near-zero fee transactions with hub-and-spoke micropayments
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net/msg06576.html

Luke-Jr, Gentoo
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531634
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2pfgjg/exposed_lukejr_plans_on_forcing_blacklists_on_all/cmwlqlt

Weekly Mining Stats
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2014/12/december-7th-2014-weekly-bitcoin_10.html

Measures of Network Hashrate Centralization
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2014/12/measures-of-network-hashrate.html
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2014/12/historical-centralisation-of-bitcoin.html
http://organofcorti.blogspot.com/2014/12/calculating-mining-centralisation-index.html

The Miner’s Dilemma
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.7099v2.pdf
http://hackingdistributed.com/2014/12/03/the-miners-dilemma/

Toward Unlinkable Bitcoin Transactions
https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/wizardry/brs.pdf

Blockchain.info Weak K Values
http://blog.blockchain.com/2014/12/08/blockchain-info-security-disclosure/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2otekd/white_hat_johoe_returns_255_btc_to_blockchaininfo/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2p9zv2/300_more_btc_swept_from_insecure_wallets_by_johoe/
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=143551;sa=showPosts
http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/2014/12/08
https://github.com/blockchain/My-Wallet/commit/0765daf217aa2bc6ee0802072c172a3572903345
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6979

Bitcoin Authenticator 0.1.1 Released
https://www.bitcoinauthenticator.org/version-0-1-1-release/

Stellar Fork
https://www.stellar.org/blog/safety_liveness_and_fault_tolerance_consensus_choice/